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H.P. Lovecraft, Founder

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy andscience fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.

Lovecraft’s guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed “cosmicism” or “cosmic horror”, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore.

According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted “an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction”. Stephen King called Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”King has even made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for King’s own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his fiction writing. His stories have also been adapted into plays, films and games.

Chancellor Smith

Chancellor Smith, Chancellor of Miskatonic, is a fellow Lovecraft reader. He started this website back when he was in college and has maintained it throughout the past 18 years. Inspired by Lovecraft’s witty and deceptive practice of convincing others as to the whether Miskatonic University or his towns were real, the Chancellor built the Miskatonic University site with the same mindset. With all new technologies that the Chancellor familiarizes himself with, he usually first experiments with Miskatonic.

The Miskatonic Inquisitor is published by Miskatonic University located in Arkham, Massachusetts. All articles are combed from the the World Wide Web and presented here as a reading collection for Miskatonic’s student body. As a student of Miskatonic University, you are encouraged to visit the Inquisitor and stay up to date with what’s going on around campus. Stay informed of sightings by Cthulhu, the Cult of Cthulhu and even Arkham Asylum.